Summary: How do you survive your break up when you must live and work with your ex? How do you move on to someone else without wrecking two very important friendships? Valentine’s Day 2259 will be entertaining.

T'Pau found out that Jim didn't actually die on the sands of Vulcan during Spock's Pon Farr. And now she wants a rematch.

For this challenge:

By Ashaya-var

Not a Pon Farr challenge, believe it or not. They fooled T'Pau the first time around, but it's pretty clear before long that Kirk didn't die on the sands of Vulcan like he was supposed to. What if she demands, by the power of Vulcan law, that they return for a rematch- a fight to the death, no tricks this time.

Bonus if they realize they can only get out of it if they bond. (Something about t'hy'la not having to kill each other, yadayada.) Yay for first-time stories!

You can set this during TOS, or find a way to fit it into the Abrams universe- I'm not picky.

Tragic events require special measures: like melding with James T. Kirk, the epitome of Human illogic and challenge to the Vulcan mind. But what begins as a search for information, becomes a trip into an unknown land of desperate beauty.

First published in "KiScon 2012. The Official Zine" (Editor: arminaa), 2012.